Well, you have just had 2.5 hours and there's been no reply - so not much going on up North.....I hope this is a not a typical un-response as most of the best engineers have come from the land of the midnight sun....

Does the sun set in Stockport ?

Legh

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Why do we need Vernier Calipers when we have container ships?

Nowt wrong with Manchester in fact sunny Stockport is not such a bad place at all
What's the criteria to being a third party inspector? Done lots of third party inspections, not back in Manchester till late March however I would think the cost of an inspection of a CU would outweigh the installation cost.

Well the minister at the time Don Foster, stated that the cost would be on average £87.

You do realise that this referred to a cost effective alternative to the risk inspections at the moment carried out by LABC and private BC's, the independent inspectors will still be able to carry out their own EIC's, EICR's at competitive rates.

regards

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"Take nothing but a picture,leave nothing but footprints!"-------------------------"Oh! The drama of it all."-------------------------"You can throw all the philosophy you like at the problem, but at the end of the day it's just basic electrical theory!"-------------------------

If Third party inspections announced some time ago (for electrical in buildings) Straightforward in theory, should have been introduced before now. Is there some dilemma, would it allow the unscrupulous to flout the rules and get away with it.

All is not well in the building trade itself:

The Federation of Master Builders Cymru said a licensing system needed, like gas safe (for buildings)
The federation's Ifan Glyn said the current system of inspections was not working, and regulation like that used in the gas industry, was required.
"At the moment my grandmother can call herself a builder," he said. "(She can) put her number in the Yellow Pages and be in someone's house the next day, making structural alterations to that house and in our opinion that isn't right," he told BBC Radio Wales.

And what will that achieve? More clubs to join... more builders having to look over their shoulders.... and the Polish builders wont give a damn and just carry on and laugh, as they have been doing for many years, at how the English carry on - having to jump through even more hoops and for what? SOD ALL!

Keep everyones fingers out of the pie and let the industry sort itself out because whatever 'they' do 'they' WILL cock it up... take a look at whats happened to the part P scam!